corvine
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or resembling a crow.
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belonging or pertaining to the Corvidae, a family of birds including the crows, ravens, and jays.
adjective
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of, relating to, or resembling a crow
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of, relating to, or belonging to the passerine bird family Corvidae, which includes the crows, raven, rook, jackdaw, magpies, and jays
Etymology
Origin of corvine
1650–60; < Latin corvīnus, equivalent to corv ( us ) raven + -īnus -ine 1
Vocabulary lists containing corvine
Example Sentences
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A pisco sour, a plate of corvine tiradito, waiters who always seem as if they’re auditioning for a show on FXX — it’s hard to have a bad time here.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2017
Not least, I particularly relished Stott’s sprightly diction: “a rialto of possibilities,” “the brutal comedy of his worldliness,” “temulent illusions,” “a horde of corvine devotees.”
From Washington Post
Ringo Starr, the somewhat corvine drummer, is the son of a house painter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The eggs, generally five in number, are of the usual corvine green, blotched, spotted, and streaked, as a rule, most densely about the large end with umber mingled with sepia-brown.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
No one could say of this bird that it carried out the corvine principle, and— ”—died as slow, As the morning mists down the hill that go.”
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)
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